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To: Tolkien

My wife and I went to the Texas Rangers Museum in Waco a few years ago. Frank Hammer’s guns that he used against Bonnie & Clyde are on display.

A great museum to visit.

Also, when LBJ stole his first Senate election near Kingsville, Tx in 1948, Hammer was sent alone to break up a riot . He must have been one tough son-of-a-gun.


24 posted on 08/13/2007 8:38:45 AM PDT by pugdog
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To: pugdog
Also, when LBJ stole his first Senate election near Kingsville,
Tx in 1948, Hammer was sent alone to break up a riot .
He must have been one tough son-of-a-gun.


Hence the term...
One Riot, One Ranger
26 posted on 08/13/2007 9:00:23 AM PDT by VOA
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I love Hamer’s words after he dealth with Bonnie and Clyde. He stated “I hate to bust a cap on a woman especially when she was sitting down but if it hadn’t of been them it would have been us”.

He was real old style lawman.


28 posted on 08/13/2007 9:15:54 AM PDT by Monterrosa-24 (...even more American than a French bikini and a Russian AK-47.)
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